In Western Men Are Doomed, David Brooks expressed the opinion that Western linear thinking was less valid than the Asian contextual and associational style.
I found the following excerpt to be something worth pondering:
Asians place emphasis on context while Westerners place more emphasis on individuals. This seems like a gross generalization but it is robustly supported by hundreds and hundreds of studies. Richard Nisbett’s book, The Geography of Thought summarizes some of the evidence.
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I enjoyed the 2010-07-18 session in part because, as a group, we have now met three or four times now and the social and collaborative aspects are starting to kick in. Although we expected attendance to drop, in fact we had a good sized group which was a healthy mixture of regulars and new people.
Why don't we consider moving to a twice monthly format?
Read the rest of this entry »These are notes of things that interest me as opposed to a report on what occurred in the session. In part, this is because the session consisted of a conversation amongst two, three or four people. See also Add second regular monthly session for ‘workshops’?
Updated: 2010-07-20, 1200: Pearson/Mullenweg kerfuffle
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Updated 2010-07-22: revised Using get_permalink for links in posts and pages.
The session today is a workshop in which several of our members will answer one on one questions specific to each person’s blog and, hopefully, resolve issues and problems on the spot.
Here are mine:
Read the rest of this entry »There is a good discussion of what the WordPress.org home page is intended to accomplish in Matt Mullenweg's 2010-07-14 thread (1,200 words) in WordPress Development Updates about his latest tweaking of its content.
Read the rest of this entry »For my colleagues on the Channel Builder/Solution Finder online marketing tool we built for the Microsoft Partner Program, here's an update on the executive sponsor, Allison L. Watson, on her departure from the program:
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I was a speaker at a Toronto SharePoint User Group meeting 2008-02-20 and this is the PowerPoint I used. On SlideShare, it is Developing an Enterprise Strategy to Deliver Customized Sets of Capabilities and has has had a modest 1,000 or so views.
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Robin Macrae is a Toronto consultant in content management and collaboration for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and SMBs with deep experience in SharePoint and WordPress. Read more …